Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unmitigated Bunk." The judge continued to rock. He summarized the case for the defendants...
...pictures in the show included something by almost every first-rank U.S. painter. Edward Hopper had sent along a harshly lit Conference at Night that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just...
Bulldozers & Textiles. Persia will build or renovate 7,122 miles of roads, buying bulldozers, dump trucks, motor graders and portable rock crushers. Later, she will be in the market for other communications equipment, 18 diesel locomotives, 30 passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network...
...provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before the five-day trip to Cork was over...
...With its rock-climbs at Quincy and its ice-climbs at Mt. Washington, HMC promises to prepare a novice for mountain conditions anywhere in the Alps. Just why a man should want to travel 4000 miles to climb an obscure pinnacle in Liechtenstein, of course, is a question that even a mountaineer couldn't answer.Getting down off a cliff can be just as hard as getting up. FREDERICK L. DUNN '51 (left) demonstrates the easy way--if you don't mind feeling like the heroine of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope...